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Daniel Bessner

Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.

Will Holub-Moorman

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

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Twenty years later, the U.S.-led invasion continues to shape geopolitics for the worse.
Simona Foltyn

How the militarization of politics continues to destabilize Iraq decades after the U.S.-led invasion.

Pranab Bardhan

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.

Essiah Ritchie

My son’s violent illness humbled my sense of control and transformed my understanding of what it means to parent.

Alex Raskolnikov

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.

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A reading list for International Women’s Day
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On the imperative of inter-species solidarity.
Jeremy Pressman

They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.

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